Downloadable record signpost images for users

[allysonlister]

It would be great for our users to be able to advertise the work they've done with us via a FAIRsharing “signposting” image for records. A number of different resources provide this. Some examples include:

• zenodo's "get the badge" e.g. https://zenodo.org/record/5068660 (click on the "DOI" image in the centre of this screenshot):
  
• re3data’s “Get a Badge” link at the bottom of a record, e.g. https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100010528

Please could you investigate how to add a link to these "signpost" download options for any record in FAIRsharing. What are your ideas for how it would look? Where would you link to it in the record? Once you have some ideas, we can make some decisions about how it will be implemented and maybe ask for a mockup.

Thanks!

[allysonlister]

I should say that in the last week, I have had two separate users during webinars and virtual conferences say how fantastic it would be to have some beautiful badges to download. And the badges could be slightly different in color or similar if the record was maintained by one or more users. They are interested in ways of attributing that they contribute to a FAIRsharing record, and such record badges could really help with this.

[allysonlister]

Just wondering what the status is on this one, with regards to when there might be time to do it? Thanks!

[knirirr]

I suspect it's probably best to produce an image on the fly by having pre-generated SVGs of whatever colour you like prepared and updating a text element on them to add the DOI on the client.
The next question is whether this is done on the server or with client-side javascript (e.g. https://www.petercollingridge.co.uk/tutorials/svg/interactive/javascript/). If on the server we could host the images, which we may or may not want to do. It's quite common, though; see the lines at the top of this file for icons embedded on the page:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FAIRsharing/FAIRsharing-API/master/README.md?token=AA3K3D6KUTTEI7BEWGBHTJ3BS7BOA
I'd have to create a server-side ticket for both the XML-modifying code (which I've never tried) and the api call to generate the image.
If generated on the client then we could not host the badges; users would have to download them and find somewhere else to host them if they wanted to embed them.

Template SVGs will have to be produced so it would depend on what else @hoseinmirian has to do.

[knirirr]

Please see the comment here: #1435 (comment)

This may well be a request for a widget and not an image at all.